(24441) Jopek Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 27 March 2000 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Tadeusz J. Jopek (b. 1951) is a professor at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. He has developed cluster analysis methods to identify meteoroid streams, and how they are associated with near-Earth asteroids.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-07-12), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Jopek is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Jopek is 2.59 au from the Sun and 3.32 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 24441 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 FM29 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.73 km (#15,791 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.237 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.99 |
| Orbital period | 3.38 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.25 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.90 – 2.60 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.155 |
| Inclination | 4.16° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.893 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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